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NSA Guest Mix Series

Eskimo Twins lay down the gauntlet for the new monthly NSA guest series with this fine selection and well crafted mix.

Timothy & Nathan met as students in Leeds, these two friends have shared their passion for music. The pair immersed themselves in the city’s clubbing and live music scenes and after discovering a mutual appreciation of Techno, Classic House, Indie, Acid and a lingering teenage love of Metal; they began making music together.

Early demos generated murmurs of approval amongst bloggers, clubbers, open-minded members of the indie glitterati and earned them a residency at the one of the UK’s most prominent club nights, Wax:On. Shows in the UK and Europe followed along with a couple of original EP’s and remixes which won them the support of fans and landed them a guest mix spot on Radio 1.

Summers spent darting back and forth between English festivals and Ibiza residencies were paired with winters spend in a dark South London studio full of old synths. Those long days helped tighten and focus their sound and resulted in a further run of original EP’s and a another host of remixes.

The Twins have continued to focus on their efforts in the studio in conjunction with DJing around the UK and Europe, and have gained a whole of new fans and champions including Mr Andrew Weatherall, who has not only consistently supported their productions in his DJ sets but also invited them into to play his A Love From Outer Space parties.

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NSA Guest Mix Vol 1. Eskimo Twins

NSA favourite Sean Johnston brings us the second instalment of our monthly guest series with his aptly titled Hardway Bros. -  Jacobite Rising Mix

Acid House Veteran, Balearic Survivor, Hardway Bros, Reformed Techno Junkie and Freelance Disco Consultant Sean Johnston has been DJ’ing since the mid eighties and regularly travels the globe delivering his ‘Future Disco' sound to some of the worlds landmark underground club nights.  Also one half of supreme club night 'A Love From Outer Space’, he and long time friend Andrew Weatherall have been sharing their hard-earned audio finds for well over 5 years and have created a musical movement which has gained them a loyal following who travel far and wide to appreciate the pair’s extensive record collections.

His productions need no explanation with regular output on stellar labels such as Sabres of Paradise,Third Mind, Flashcomm ,Beard Science, Pointless Edits, Aniligital, History Clock, Astrolab, Luna Flicks, Throne of Blood, Correspondant & NEIN

Sean is impossible to pin down to a particular style as he is known to explore and experiment with a multitude of genres including ambient, balearica, dub, krautrock, post punk, proto house, un-disco and other curiosities that take his fancy so buckle up and prepare yourself for a lesson in how it should be done with another exceptional mix.

NSA Guest Mix Vol 2. Sean Johnston

The quality of our guest mix series remains unbroken with the 3rd session coming courtesy of Andrew Weatherall who has had numerous appearances at our No Strings Attached club nights since the early years.  He always amazes us with the way he manages to capture the full attention of the club during his sets, pushing and challenging the crowd with his avant-garde performances. The long standing relationship continues when he returns next month with fellow slomo cosmic warrior Sean Johnston and this mix gives you a perfect taste of the ALFOS sound.


NSA Guest Mix Vol 3. Andrew Weatherall

Subfield boss and Belgium’s ambassador to all things underground lays down the latest NSA guest mix. 
Mugwump’s 20 year career has cemented him as one of the scene's most important figureheads with his diverse productions appearing on the likes of Kompakt, R&S, Gigolo, Cocoon, Misericord, Eskimo, Permanent Vacation, Endless Flight…..and now on his own Subfield label, on which he's released his long overdue debut-album, "Unspell", to critical acclaim this year, as well as having turned Mugwump onto a fully-fledged live band for the stage. We are delighted to have him on board under his beloved DJ hat with this excellent mix and look forward to the album's "Deluxe Digital Edition", scheduled on Subfield on the 22 January 2016, with added new songs & live festival versions.

NSA Guest Mix Vol 4. Mugwump

Uber cool French band Club Bizarre recorded this rather splendid mix to kick things off in fine style for 2016. Sam Berdah & Binda are the duo from Metz who have been consistently rising through the French electronic scene with their stand out original and eclectic sets. Their excellent Empoté EP is out now on Leoniser records and is well worth checking out.

NSA Guest Mix Vol 5. Club Bizarre

Something special coming out of Madrid this time round. Rotten City Records head honcho and all round top rotter Alvaro Cabana comes up trumps with this fine mix and selection.

NSA Guest Mix Vol 6. Alvaro Cabana

Everyone wants a piece of VoX LoW right now and we are more than delighted to welcome them on board with their spectacular NSA mix for your aural pleasure. 

NSA Guest Mix Vol 7. VoX LoW

Acclaimed DJ/Musician/Remixer/Producer,  Nein records boss and one half of Permanent Wave, Tronik Youth delivers the March NSA mix. He has DJ’ed all over the world, including USA, South America and is a regular on the European DJ circuit regularly spinning at the best underground parties. 

Enjoy the next hour of musical delight from his box of tricks with some of the freshest records around.

NSA Guest Mix Vol 8. Tronik Youth

Clandestino aka Joe Morris, Nick Smith & Iain Mac have been involved in the city’s underground music scene for over 15 years; regularly throwing diverse parties and bringing exciting new DJ talent to town. Their visionary booking policy saw them invite Erol Alkan, Tim Sweeney, Simian Mobile Disco, Todd Terje, Optimo and Joakim to Leeds long before they became the established acts they are today.

Their sound takes in influences from the glory days of Acid House, the melodic elements of Balearica and the energy of Disco while always being focused at the dance floor.

Now starting to become in demand themselves, Clandestino have a bunch of releases out in 2015; an EP & remix for Manchester’s EL Diablos Social Club, an EP for Rothmans Music, an exclusive track for Yam Who’s Midnight Riot compilation, plus remixes for Tronik Youth’s Nein Records imprint.



Clandestino’s own podcast series is revered world wide; with regular mixes from high calibre guests such as Andrew Weatherall, Jennifer Cardini, Eskimo Twins, Headman and many more.

It's a pleasure to have the guys on board with this fantastic mix.

NSA Guest Mix Vol 9. Clandestino

The Starkiller's life goal is to make disco music. He started putting beats & synths together in the late 90s: first focussing on breakbeat, later on all things disco--edits, remixes but also original material, operating within the dark triangle spanned by italo, cosmic/space disco and balearic (and the occasional excursion into rock, r&b and soul).

NSA Guest Mix Vol 10. Starkiller

Logan Fisher aka Haules Baules brings his magic to the NSA guest mix series. We have had the pleasure of Logan playing at NSA on a couple of occasions and he left a lasting impression with the crowd. Look forward to working with him again in the future.

NSA Guest Mix Vol 11. Haules Baules

Spanish trio Xar Lee, Da Well and The Modernphase better know as Gameboyz got their heads together to deliver a rather excellent podcast for NSA’s 12th Guest Mix. 

NSA Guest Mix Vol 12. Gameboyz

Keeping up the the European theme tonight here is another NSA guest mix from the brilliant Reza Athar recorded live from Festifest Festival. We played on the same bill as Reza last year at Cowbell’s all dayer in Manchester’s Antwerp Mansion. We loved his style and had him lined up to come over from Amsterdam to play at the Dean before we were ejected so delighted to have this live set from him in the meantime. Here is a few of his upcoming shows.

02-07 - Radion
03-07 - Whoosah
08-07 - In Retriate Festival
09-07 - Electric Elephant, Croatia
16-07 - Lovebox Festival, London
17-07 - Drift Op De Boot
19-07 - Subcultuur
20-07 - Valkhof Festival
22-07 - Nimma Danst Door
28-07 - Salon Zur Wilde Renate, Berlin

NSA Guest Mix Vol 13. Reza Athar (Live at Festifest)

“How many years does it take before you officialy become ‘a veteran’? Belgian producer Raphaël de Sauvage has been bossing it on the underground scene since ’96, so we reckon he’s earned that title without much sweat.“

From ’01 until ’09, his Digitalk FM show for Vibration Radio brought out a crop of Belgian guests that are better know today under their names as The Magician, Mugwump, Kolombo and Aeroplane.

The chameleonic producer has been penning fusions of ‘80s pop, dark basslines, and unhinged house beats since the mid-noughties - combinations that are by his standards ‘non-formulaic’, getting his Cabaret Nocturne cloak on in 2013, and recently signed to Beachcoma (owned by Fairmont, Metope and Sid Le Rock) with ‘Blood Walk’, which is nothing short of a slow-mo masterpiece.

In the short time since launching the project, he has also released original productions and remixes on Factor City (owned by Undo), Rotten City, Join Our Club (home of the majority of his original output), Disque Discos or Melómana.

With his musical vision he gained support from the cream of the contemporary electronic dance music crop such as Andrew Weatherall, Chloé, Cosmo Vitelli, Damian Lazarus, Daniele Baldelli, Erol Alkan, Ewan Pearson, Fairmont, Jennifer Cardini, Justin Robertson, My Favorite Robot, Tim Sweeney, Trevor Jackson …

Then there’s his monthly ‘K7 Nocturne’ podcast that sweeps up some of the shiniest exclusives and upcoming tracks from his fingertips, showing that one thing’s for certain: Raph’s got staying power.

Focusing on an ever broadening horizon, he continuing constantly his production efforts hiding himself beneath his bowler hat.

NSA Guest Mix Vol 14. Cabaret Nocturne

No introduction needed - Greg Wilson in the mix for NSA. Turn it up
Recorded live at Liverpool Loves Festival

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NSA Guest Mix Vol 15. Greg Wilson (Live at Love Festival)

Laurent Pastor and Marc Lepeyre (fkclub) combine forces as La Decadanse to give us this stunning mix.

NSA Guest Mix Vol 16. La Decadanse

https://soundcloud.com/italobrutalo

If you look up the word combination retro-futuristic-cosmic-space-synth-techno-disco, in the Encyclopedia Galactica (not available on earthbound amazon), you will find an audiovisual holographic representation of the legendary Italo Brutalo.
 Not convinced yet? Well, it all began a long time ago in a far away mind space, when the visionary musicians George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Yellow Magic Orchestra and Giorgio Moroder met in a higher geometrical dimension during a lucid dreaming session. There, they improvisationally build a shrine that married a Farfisa organ, a Linndrum and an ARP Odyssey. The analog offspring of this cosmic union laid dormant in a rainbownized mothership cocoon, until it crackingly metamorphized, spreading its night club butterfly wings, enveloping the dance floors with pure loving 80’s synth and beat coolness in 2012 a la Italo Brutalo.
 A true believer in the capability of analog synthesizers, Italo Brutalo gets his first EP Paradiso Analogico released on Mozzarella Recordings in 2013. This release took the picture of Italo disco, being produced in a smokey 80’s studio in southern Italy, with is a knackered mixer desk, some fat mono synths covered in dust, a crappy digital effect box and a pre-programmed drum machine that somebody detached from a Farfisa organ that just plays an endless disco beat blasting angry Italo disco from the basement, to a cleaner perfectionist soundscape of the 21st century.
       Keeping his originality, Italo Brutalo releases the EP Systeria on the label Days of being wild in 2014 and the EP Spydor on Nein Records in 2015. By then, he has already done lots of well-hyped remixes for artists such as Kris Menace, Justin Faust, Moonbootica, Auxiliary tha Masterfader, James Rod, etc.
       With a turntable and synthesizer setup like few, Italo Brutalo performs world wide and has paid tribute to his Italo cause on dance floors and festivals, like Zoo Project in Ibiza, Wilde Renate in Berlin, Le Sucre in Lyon and Replicant Knights in Barcelona to name a few.
       Not limiting his skills and passion for his style to remixes, edits, tracks and DJ gigs, Italo Brutalo has also delivered numerous podcast sets to broadcasters such as Berlin Boombox, Death by Repetition, Nu Disco Your Disco, The Robot Scientists and others.
       As always, Italo Brutalo will keep it real, high quality and will keep spreading his original old school synthesizer disco music vibe in the future by taking listeners, night clubs and festival motherships on a truly original voyage.

NSA Guest Mix Vol 17. Italo Brutalo

Curses is the dark and romantic moniker from New York City native, Luca Venezia. Always blending the line between Electronic music and his Rock & Roll roots, Curses sounds like something from an illegal galactic warehouse party with flashes of ’80s Italo-disco and New Wave.

NSA Guest Mix Vol 18. Curses

Berlin-based DJ duo and couple Brax Moody (Munich) and Vamparela (Thessaloniki) have been collaborating together since 2007, either as a DJ duo, in bands, or as remixers and music producers. Merging the rhythm and dynamism of Munich’s hip-hop clubs with the grime and attitude of Thessaloniki’s back-alley indie bars gives an idea of how to categorize Local Suicide: a straight-up soulful fusion of new wave, slow techno, acid house, chug or as they like to call it “technodisco”.

As DJs they’ve played all over Europe, Asia, North Africa, South America and the US with gigs at Off Sonar, Melt!, Amsterdam Dance Event, Berlin Festival and regular DJ slots at Salon zur Wilden Renate, Berghain, Watergate, Ritter Butzke and almost every club the German capital has to offer.

NSA Guest Mix Vol 19. Local Suicide

Craig has been an NSA favorite for a few years now, back in 2010 his track Birdshell on Instruments of rapture first grabbed our attention. Since then Craig has produced and remixed various outstanding records on his label Magicfeet Recordings. We had the pleasure of bringing him North of the border for his Scottish debut in 2013, he now returns to play NSA in 2017.

NSA Guest Mix Vol 20. Craig Bratley

NSA Day Culture - The Old Town Edinburgh
Currently at,
The Bongo Club.

Other Venues include:
Sneaky Pete's
The Mash House
Cabaret Voltaire
The Caves
 
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Future / Past Dates:

11.05.24 - Day Culture #7 Ivan Smagghe + Manfredas / The Bongo Club
20.04.24 - Day Culture #6 Sean Johnston + Vladimir Ivkovic
The Bongo Club
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09.12.23 - Day Culture #5 Optimo + Eclair Fifi / The Bongo Club
17.06.23 - Day Culture #4 David Holmes Sean Johnston Tronik Youth 
Stockholm Syndrome - Cabaret Voltaire
22.04.23 - Day Culture #3 Ivan Smagghe b2b Manfredas + Harri & Domenic - Cabaret Voltaire
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05.11.22 - Day Culture #2 Sean Johnston & Man Power - Cabaret Voltaire
16.07.22 - NSA / ALFOS Day Culture #1 The Mash House
08.04.22 - NSA w/ ALFOS The Caves
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05.11.21 - NSA w/ ALFOS The Mash House
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31.01.20 - NSA w/ Curses - Sneaky Pete's
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26.12.19 - Club Nauct w/ Optimo + NSA
The Mash House
26.10.19 - Terminal V Festival - Edinburgh
18.08.19 - Jose Padilla + NSA 99 Hanover Street
02.08.19 - Tweak Carl Craig + NSA Liquid Room
24.05.19 - NSA at 99 Hanover Street Edinburgh
20.04.19 - Terminal V Festival - Edinburgh
25.01.19 - NSA w/  A Love From Outer Space
The Mash House 
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21.12.18 - NSA w/ Sean Johnston - Sneaky Pete's 
10.11.18 - Lights Out w/ NSA - Broadcast Glasgow
26.10.18 - NSA at Debonair Paris
11.08.18 - NSA w/ Daniel Weil, Brainstorm
Athens Of The North
The Mash House 
03.08.18 - NSA at Garage - Paris
14.07.18 - NSA at 99 Hanover St. Edinburgh
09.06.18 - Tweak w/ Domenic Cappello, Dixon Avenue Basement Jams
NSA Kippilaw House The Scottish Borders
18.05.18 - NSA at 99 Hanover Street Edinburgh
23.03.18 - NSA w/ Crimes of the Future 
Sneaky Pete's 
02.03.18 - Hectors w/ Dan Shake + NSA - Bourbon
23.02.18 - NSA w/ Andrew Weatherall, Sean Johnston (ALFOS)
The Mash House Edinburgh 

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Photo Credits: 
James Gourley 
Vicki Watson
Ben Glasgow

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